Thursday Jun 04 '09

Jenny’s Dashi Soup (50)

A lot of people asked for the recipe to the quick, low calorie soup I made on Sunday. So here’s a recipe! This is an extremely simple soup you can customize to fit your own taste. The major components are dashi and boiled cabbage. I used dried shiitake dashi powder. However, dashi is simple to make. Here are a few recipes for shiitake (or mushroom) dashi. I prefer shiitake dashi, but you can use kombu dashi as well. This web site sells some instant dashi packets. I also used somen noodles but you could substitute with soba or udon noodles if you like.

Also you could boil the cabbage with the dumplings if you don’t have boiled cabbage ready. I tend to boil whole heads of cabbage at a time so I just add it in at the end.

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Sunday May 31 '09

What I ate Today (49)

Yea, it’s going to be that boring Of a post, hahaha

I didn’t do much this weekend. Mostly I laid out both Saturday and Sunday! It was heavenly! Saturday we did get out for a while. I picked up these heels on sale at DSW! Only $25.00. So far they’re feeling really comfy! I’m hoping I can wear them often with baggy rolled jeans

Yea, nothing but blackberry photos, hahaaha.
Today I didn’t even go out except on a walk later in the evening. I spent a lot of my day laying out, then cooking up heads of cabbage for the coming week! I want to replace 2 dinner meals this week with low-calorie cabbage meals! So for lunch I grabbed a bunch of low calorie things and made a quick soup! It’s made from cabbage, shiitake dashi, gyoza dumplings (with leek inside!), Texas Pete hot sauce, and a few noodles. In all it’s about 150kcal a bowlful! I had 2 bowls worth because I only had a 65kcal jelly for breakfast. :twinklewhtout:
I was shocked at how good it tasted. I really suck at cooking except easy things like this